本次展覽「變異人」集結了六件入選自「2015 MoCA Video當代影像聚場」徵件展之作品,分別用電腦動畫、行為錄像、及手繪動畫等影像作品,以不同的視角探討人類的處境如何造成身體感知的變異。當代社會環境中的紛亂、高壓與疏離,讓人類身體感知逐漸與自我、他者、以及環境產生斷裂,形成了一個個陌生化的、發狂的、與變形的身體。
Mutant Man features six video works of computer animation, performance, and hand-drawn animation from the works selected by the 2015 MoCA Video open-call-for-work program. With different perspectives, the six videos discuss how social situations have contributed to human's altered physical perception. Discord, pressure and alienation in contemporary society have caused a break between people's physical perception and the self, other, and environment, transforming them into de-familiarized, frenzied, and mutated bodies.
參展的五位藝術家中,羅馬尼亞藝術家莫妮卡‧弗拉德的《:斷訊》呈現不斷消逝的記憶圖碼與情感連結,讓人的存在也隨之孤立與崩解;馬其頓共和國藝術家達可‧塔雷斯基是皮膚劃紋症患者,《協助難民》中他將歐洲難民的求救訊息刻劃在身體上,透過皮膚將紛亂國際情勢下人民的不安與不適顯影;詹游丞的《狂人》由魯迅的「狂人日記」為發想,描繪當代社會的殘酷與枷鎖,導致人類精神壓抑崩潰而發狂逃離;林旺廷的《築》試圖凸顯現代化城市發展導致人類只能在冰冷且模組化的建物中生活,「非家園」的狀態讓人們也有如一個個無感情的物件,移動生存著;楊竣傑的《無效體操》和《自動的假期》則是分別以手繪動畫表現在生活奇想中不斷變異的超現實身體。
Five artists are showcased in Mutant Man. Romanian artist Monica Vlad's :interrupted reveals a series of constantly disappearing images of memory and emotional connection, representing human existence in a state of solitude and disintegration. Macedonian artist Darko Taleski has dermatographia. In Help Refugees, he writes down pleas for helping European refugees on his body, epitomizing people's anxiety and discomfort regarding the chaotic international situations on his skin. Zheng Yo-Cheng's The Crazy is inspired by Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary, and depicts the cruelty and shackles imposed by contemporary society, which lead to people's psychological repression, breakdown and escape. In Building, Building, Lin Wang-Tin aims to address how modern urban development has led to a life in cold and modularized buildings. The condition of "non-homes" has transformed people into unfeeling objects, moving but not living. With hand-drawn animation, Young Gym-Jack's The Useless Cha-cha and Everyday’s a Holiday delineate surrealistic bodies that undergo continuous mutations through fantasies in life.